From Marketing Land:

The majority of email messages will be read on mobile devices by the end of 2012, predicts email services firm Return Path. In a newly-released study, the company says email open rates have increased 82.4% between March of 2011 and March of 2012, now accounting for nearly 30% of email opens. Apple devices — iPhones, [...]

Ever since it’s rise in popularity Pinterest has drawn a good deal of criticism around attribution (or lack thereof). Today Flickr has announced a partnership of sorts that allow users to pin Flickr photos with proper attribution directly from Flickr. This comes as a surprise to many as Flickr was actually the first major site to implement a [...]

Last week, Google made further improvement to its Analytics platform by adding Site Speed reports to help users analyze their site’s page load times, and allowing for greater granularity on site performance than previously available. The new Site Speed reports allows marketers to measure the execution speed and load time of user-defined events, such as [...]

It’s one of the most important rules of search engine optimization. Don’t depend solely on SEO. Especially don’t depend solely on Google, the largest of the SEO sources. I’m always surprised when people fail to learn this lesson. Those hit hard by last week’s Penguin Update are just the latest to learn it again. Consider some [...]

ComScore has released its latest mobile and smartphone market share figures. Based on consumer survey data the company reports that, once again, only Android and the iPhone showed growth while all other smartphone operating systems were down — or flat in the case of Symbian. Next quarter we’re likely to see RIM’s share in the [...]

Google’s desire to put the so-called Wi-Spy scandal to bed by releasing an unredacted copy of the recent FCC report on the matter has done the opposite. It showed that the capture of a broad array of “consumer payload” data was intended and that multiple people at the company were informed of the practice. Accordingly [...]

As hinted at yesterday, a life-saving new Facebook feature has been announced, Organ Donation. In a post from Mark Zuckerberg and Cheryl Sandberg announced the new timeline feature that allows users to share their organ-donation status with their friends. Users can add the date they became an organ donor along with a story: To add [...]

The Dilbert Cartoon for today features Google Glasses. It mocks how people who know each other can now learn a bit too much about each other, ultimately ruining relationships and friendships. It doesn’t only blame Google Glasses, Twitter is blamed also. Woman: Those must be the Google Glasses that give you information about your environment [...]

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